Sadly, it seemed for a while that the successful program that's turned so many youngsters away from gangs and academic failure -- and toward educational achievement -- would be shuttered permanently simply out of sheer stinginess.

Mr Knowlden was so hopelessly in love with her, said the judge, that he agreed to pay her pounds 1,000 a month and signed A Contract for a Healthy and Happy Life - a "bizarre" document which laid down rules about personal hygiene, stinginess and manners which he was required to observe on pain of a pounds 100 penalty.

As a Jordanian, I have to suffer paying some JD10,000 in duties on my current 1993 car, which still has one month to go before this amount becomes due, while rich foreign investors get to drive fresh and flashy cars at duty-free prices, then I think that going full circle and embracing the ethos of bangernomics as one friend of middle class means has been doing for years, despite ceaseless fun poked at his expense and suffering incessant accusations of stinginess.

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